dismal是什么意思_dismal怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

causing dejection;"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
"a week of rainy depressing weather"
"a disconsolate winter landscape"
"the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
"a dark gloomy day"
"grim rainy weather"

中英词源

dismal 凄凉的，阴沉的

来自拉丁语dies mali, 即malicious day. 后用做形容词，凄凉的，阴沉的。

dismal: dismal: [13] Etymologically, dismal means ‘bad day’. It comes, via Anglo-Norman dis mal, from Latin diēs malī, literally ‘evil days’, a term used to denote the two days in each month which according to ancient superstition were supposed to be unlucky (these days, of set date, were said originally to have been computed by Egyptian astrologers, and were hence also called Egyptian days). The term dismal thus acquired connotations of ‘gloom’ and ‘calamity’. Its earliest adjectival use, somewhat tautologically, was in the phrase dismal day, but in the late 16th century it broadened out considerably in application.
dismal (adj.): c. 1400, from Anglo-French dismal (mid-13c.), from Old French (li) dis mals "(the) bad days," from Medieval Latin dies mali "evil or unlucky days" (also called dies Ægyptiaci), from Latin dies "days" (see diurnal) + mali, plural of malus "bad" (see mal-).

Through the Middle Ages, calendars marked two days of each month as unlucky, supposedly based on the ancient calculations of Egyptian astrologers (Jan. 1, 25; Feb. 4, 26; March 1, 28; April 10, 20; May 3, 25; June 10, 16; July 13, 22; Aug. 1, 30; Sept. 3, 21; Oct. 3, 22; Nov. 5, 28; Dec. 7, 22). Modern sense of "gloomy, dreary" first recorded in English 1590s, in reference to sounds. Related: Dismally.

词态变化

副词 dismally;

权威造句

1. My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.: 我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。

2. You can"t occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.: 不要终日陷在阴郁的思绪中。

3. It was a dismal failure.: 这是个让人沮丧的失败。

4. The singer gave a dismal performance of some old songs.: 那歌手唱了几首老歌，唱得不怎么样。

5. That is a rather dismal melody.: 那是一支相当忧郁的歌曲.

近反义词

gloomy 阴暗的

miserable 痛苦的

dreary 沉闷的

depressing 令人沮丧的

bleak 萧瑟的

dark 黑暗的

cheerless 沉闷的

blue 蓝色的

cloudy 多云的

melancholy 忧郁

somber 微暗的

solemn 庄严的

overcast 阴天的

painful 痛苦的

black 黑的

grey 灰色的

glum 闷闷不乐的

comfortless 无安慰的

sullen 愠怒的

funereal 适合葬礼的

doleful 悲哀的

grim 严厉的

drab 土褐色的

dull 呆滞的

murky 黑暗的

desolate 荒凉的

sorry 对不起的

disconsolate 忧郁的

drear 阴沉的

dingy 肮脏的

相似短语

Dismal days 埃及日，不吉利的日子（或称Egyptian days，指一年当中代表厄运或凶兆的那些日子。在“埃及日”理论中，一年中不吉利的日子有1月1日和25日，2月4日和6日，3月1日和28日，4月10日和20

dismal science 沉闷[枯燥]的科学(资本主义社会中讽剌政治经济学)

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. Latin dies "days" (see diurnal) + mali, plural of malus "bad" (see mal-).
2. days => Latin dies.
3. days mal-.
4. Etymologically, dismal means "bad days".

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